These plants are traditionally used to alleviate nearly 300 types of diseases — everything from stomach ailments to heart problems.

While precise figures are not known and are vastly underreported, a 2018 study from the Urban Indian Health Institute found that Native American women are 10 times more likely to be murdered than other American women.

When the rains came in January 2020, and again in February (albeit in less of a deluge), Foluke Afolabi was concerned about her farm in Ikorodu, in Nigeria’s southwestern Lagos State.

When Zohra Sansa, 21, returned to Kabul, Afghanistan, after nine years in Iran as a refugee, she witnessed some of climate change’s catastrophic effects in crowded internally displaced persons camps filled with homeless, rural families.